Wheel city: Pitt groups team up to host 3-on-3 adaptive sports tournament
By David Leftwich | Senior Staff Writer
February 27, 2018
Filed under Sports
The Chair Bears claimed the title in Pitt’s inaugural 3-vs-3 Wheelchair Basketball Tournament last Saturday. The tournament featured 14 teams — a significant outcome for a school that had no program for adaptive sports just two years ago. “We’re hoping to use this as an outreach effort and ...
Adaptive sports practices begin at Pitt
By Ashwini Sivaganesh | Assistant Sports Editor
September 28, 2016
Filed under Sports
Brandon Daveler was perplexed. The inaugural wheelchair basketball practice for the semester was supposed to take place the first Thursday after school started — but no one showed up. Instead, a wheelchair with a basketball on its seat sat alone in the corner of the second-floor Bellefield gym...